The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-12
The AMERICAN Calzg
In LONDON AND BUFFALO BILLS
SATIN FAN.
The Princess Of Wales Spends the
Pleasantest EVenir g 81 Her Life
at Bllfs Show.
loOnREsrOrpEscr OF TIE IrrEAL.l


LONDON, May 2S.-The American
invasion of London has begun il
real earnest, and even more than il
usual at this time of year. TIL,
Strand resembles Broadway from
Fourteenth street to Thirty fourth
street, every other person you NEE
seems to be an American; and tn,
long black winter, that has hardly
passed yet, for the weather is still
anything but spring like. seems &
dream as the familiar faces reappeal
who greeted me year ago in the
same place.
Notwithstanding the weather the
London season is in full swing, and
the society papers are filled with al
sorts of concerts, balls and routs, and
coaching club parties taking place
and the racing season inaugurated
by the Derby" will form a process
ion Of important events.
Tuesday was the Queens birthday
and beyond the Examinations, which
are customary 10 the evening, very
little notice was taken of it, Her
Majesty being at BalDeral, in Scot
land, where she confined her rejoic-
ings to the bestowal of small gifts
upon the members of her household
with her own hands.
Wednesday was Derby day-with
its usual scenes, which have been so
sften described. The day was hardly
a fine one, consequently the attend
ance was not as great as last year;
the excitement, however. was i'm
nense on the discovery that a dark
horse had won the ribbon. All the
Americans in London were there.
Two coaches went from the Ameri-
can Exchange, two from the Ameri-
can Exhibition, and one from the
Columbia Club "a new club Just in
stituted). On the latter coach was
Maj. John NJ. Burke, of
the Wild West, who, with his big
sombrero and long hair, was mis-
taken by the mass for Buffalo Bill,
and the feelings of the people was
shown by the fact that their route was
enc succession of cheers during the
sixteen miles to the Derby course
and back. If anything, the excite
ment was increased by the fact that
Maj. Burke carried bag full of half
pence which he scattered literally
among the street arabs who thronged
the wayside.
At the drawing room last week, the
Queen being indisposed, did not at
tend, leaving the Princess of Wales
to represent her.
The princess, accompanied BY the
Princess Maud. attended by one lady
only and Col. Gardiner, paid sec.
end visit to the American Exhibition
after the drawing room. She arrived
at about 8 o'clock, paid for her ad-
mission like anyone else and went in
with the crowd. She was discovered,
however, by Maj. Burke aud Towns
end Percy, who carried out her
wishes that she should be screened
from observation as much as posi-
BILE, and be allowed to remain until
the end of the wild West" pro
gramme without being recognized.
After the performance she visited
Col. Cody in his tent and drank tea
with him, and inspected the whole
of the camp, and after wandering
around the exhibition and making a
few trifing purchases she left as
quietly as she came, saying she had
passed one of the pleasantest even
ings of her life.
Among the other visitors this
week were the grand. duke and grand
duchess of SAKE Mpehiugen, the old
est royal blood in Europe, with the
exception of the Cologne family in
Italy.
On Thursday the Hon. E. V.
Phelps, United States Minister, plen-
ipotentiary to the Court of St.
James, paid a visit to the exhibition.
He was visited in his box by Mr..
John r. Whitley, director general
Of the American exhibition, who |
presented him to NJ. Bartholdi, the
celebrated scu' ptor of the Statue of |
Liberty" in New York harbor, and |
who is here putting the final touches |
10 his diorama of New York bay, the |
building toI which has just been |
in the center of the gar
lens.
In the court yard in front of the
entrance to the main building has
been erected, by order of Director
whitley, one of the houses
which formed part of the much |
,alked- of "old London" at the South |
kensington exhibitions, aud which |
was enormously reported had been
AIKEN intact to America. 1t is to be |
Ised as the box office for the "Wild |
West" thus forming a striking and |
yrotesque instance of the changes
which time makes, and the gateway |
% the wild West" is now as
ormerly through "old London
"Imperial Go ar dead and turned to clay
May stop flaw to keep the Wild away"
The machinery is in place now,
md the huge engine which moves it
$ an object Of great interest. The
lowers are spripging up in the gar
lens, and the whole exhibition pre-
ents a gala aspect. The visitors
.yerage over 10000 per diem, and
he complete success, both artistic
nd financial, of the exhibition is
low conceded on every hand.
As an example of how great the
American craze is in London, at a
ancy lair held at Earl Speucer's
Iouse in St. James, and which was
tteDded by the Princess of Wales,
he Princess Louise, the Dowager
Duchess of Marlborough, Earl and
lady Granville and daughters, and
lalt the peerage; a satin fan con-
aiming a sketch of RED Shirt" in